Design concept
It is an independent redesign concept, published for review. Nothing on it reaches the cafe: no order goes through, no catering request is delivered, no table is held. For real hours, real ordering and everything else, use the cafe's own website.
Monday through Saturday, one plate a day, eleven ninety five.
A different plate every day
One special a day, cooked the way it has been cooked here for thirty nine years. Eleven ninety five, every day of the week.
Meatloaf with a tomato glaze, mashed potatoes under gravy, green beans and a square of cornbread.
$11.95
Fettuccine alfredo, or the chicken casserole if that is more your day. Peas, carrots and a warm roll.
$11.95
Baked chicken, the way it has come out of this oven for thirty nine years, with two sides and bread.
$11.95
Chicken and dumplings in thick gravy, with corn, slaw and cornbread. The plate people drive across town for.
$11.95
Spaghetti, sauce simmered from the morning, with a side and bread. Nobody has complained yet.
$11.95
Spinach quiche baked that morning, potato salad, a roll and a green salad on the side.
$11.95Six days, six plates, and four kinds of chili underneath all of it.
On the board all week
Texas, plain, vegetarian and the one with beans. Poured over almost anything on the menu, and the reason most people came the first time.
Same corner since 1987
One room, one kitchen, four kinds of chili and a special that changes with the day. The mural went up on the side of the building and never came down.
The room and the wall
Photographs from the cafe's own pages: the painted wall on Monroe Road, the booths, and the regulars who have been coming since the eighties.
2718 Monroe Road
